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Is #ChatGPT corrupting peer review? Telltale words hint at #AI use

Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01051-2

Out of more than 1,600 scientists who responded to a 2023 Nature survey, nearly 30% said they had used generative AI to write papers and around 15% said they had used it for their own literature reviews and to write grant applications.

#technology #science #news #future

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#Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery Stores

Amazon Fresh is moving away from a feature of its grocery stores where customers could skip checkout altogether.

Though it seemed completely automated, Just Walk Out relied on more than 1,000 people in India watching and labeling videos to ensure accurate checkouts. The cashiers were simply moved off-site, and they watched you as you shopped.

Source: https://gizmodo.com/amazon-reportedly-ditches-just-walk-out-grocery-stores-1851381116

#economy #supermarket #business #pay #news #technology #future #video #job #shopping

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End the Phone-Based #Childhood Now

source: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/03/teen-childhood-smartphone-use-mental-health-effects/677722/

Once young people began carrying the entire internet in their pockets, available to them day and night, it altered their daily experiences and developmental pathways across the board. Friendship, dating, sexuality, exercise, sleep, academics, politics, family dynamics, identity—all were affected. Life changed rapidly for younger #children, too, as they began to get access to their #parents’ smartphones and, later, got their own iPads, laptops, and even smartphones during elementary #school.

#technology #news #change #humanity #future #society #smartphone #problem

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#AI #news that's fit to print

source: https://www.zachseward.com/ai-news-thats-fit-to-print-sxsw-2024/

So we've seen how ML models are at their best, for journalism, when recognizing patterns the human eye alone can't see. Patterns in text, data, images of data, photos on the ground, and photos taken from the sky. Of course, a lot of this has been possible for many years. But there are some equally inspiring uses of the hottest new machine-learning technology, LLMs, or generative AI. If traditional machine learning is good at finding patterns in a mess of data, you might say that generative AI's superpower is creating patterns. So let's look at a few examples of that in action for news.

#llm #technology #press #journalism #future #usecase

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United Nations General Assembly Adopts by Consensus U.S.-Led Resolution on Seizing the Opportunities of Safe, Secure and #Trustworthy Artificial #Intelligence Systems for Sustainable #Development

Source: https://www.state.gov/united-nations-general-assembly-adopts-by-consensus-u-s-led-resolution-on-seizing-the-opportunities-of-safe-secure-and-trustworthy-artificial-intelligence-systems-for-sustainable-development/

We no longer have to worry that #AI will destroy our #civilization. The US is now working with the UN to ensure that only good AI is developed and then used fairly. If there's anyone we can trust to distinguish between good and evil, it's the US. With its ethical foreign policy, it has set guidelines for the whole world that are still unsurpassed today.


#technology #future #news #ethics #humanity #politics #usa #uno

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Is the #Media Prepared for an Extinction-Level Event?

The Washington Post’s new #publisher and C.E.O., Will Lewis, was more clearly bearish on subscriptions. “That subscription-based model is now #waning and then will enter a more significant period of decline,” he said. “There’s very positive evidence of how news can be accessed and paid for in more innovative ways. There are day passes that are successful, there’s week passes, there are models like the #Guardian where you can make #donations. So there’s a whole new generation of paying user concepts. I’m pretty excited about it. I think it’s #newsroom 3.0.”

Source: https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-weekend-essay/is-the-media-prepared-for-an-extinction-level-event

#news #newspaper #press #journalism #future #finance #economy #capitalism #society #problem

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